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Also Known As musical theatre • musical comedy

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Pioneers of musical theater
West Side Story
Large cast of Phantom of the Opera in elaborate, colorful costumes and masks performs on stage, with Sylvia Rhyne and John Ruess in front center during a dress rehearsal.
Lucy Durack as Glinda in a yellow dress and Amanda Harrison as Elphaba with green skin and a black dress perform on stage in Wicked, surrounded by dancers in elaborate green costumes.
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Jonathan Larson
American composer
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
Christina Applegate with long, wavy blonde hair and a dark top, looking at the camera against a softly blurred background.
Christina Applegate
American actress
Lynn Nottage, 2018
Lynn Nottage
American playwright
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Betty Comden
American songwriter
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Mr. Entertainment
Sammy Davis, Jr.
American entertainer
Matthew Broderick wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie, smiling at the camera in a formal portrait taken in 2017.
Matthew Broderick
American actor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
Paul Robeson seated in a suit, looking up and smiling in a black and white portrait.
Paul Robeson
American singer, actor, and political activist
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel
American actress and singer
Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
Barbra Streisand
American singer and actress
Rouben Mamoulian.
Rouben Mamoulian
Georgian-born American director
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Joe Weber
American comedian
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John Kander
American songwriter
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Russel Crouse
American dramatist
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Lupino Lane
English actor
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Lew Fields
American comedian

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